The sun was setting, and there was still a faint afterglow. All of them sat in the yard of Cao Xiangnan's house. It happened that Sun Ji came back from work at this time. When Sun Bailian went to look for him, he was at home. When he heard what Sun Bailian said, he followed without saying a word.

When Cao Dapeng came, his wife Chen Hong also came with him. Chen Hong was also a good person, cheerful and hardworking. If Cao Dapeng followed them in the future, he would not hide it from the people at home.

"What do you think?" Cao Xiangnan told the two people who were invited to his home about setting up the stall. He needed help here now, and he planned to sell the rice noodles to restaurants. The more rice noodles he sold, the more money he could make.

If someone could take over the stall, he could also spare time to do other things.

"Okay, I'll do it." Sun Ji nodded on the spot.

Cao Dapeng was an honest man. After listening to what Cao Xiangnan said, he realized that he had been farming for most of his life and didn't know how to go out and do business. He rubbed his hands and found that everyone was staring at him. He swallowed his saliva and said nervously, "I don't know, I only know how to farm."

"Hey, you blockhead." Chen Hong was so anxious that he almost slapped him. He said anxiously, "What? You are doing nothing. Husband, you go with Cao Jia Silang to do business. I will stay at home to take care of the children and mother for you."

Cao Dapeng was the youngest of three brothers. The first two brothers were unwilling to take care of mother, so they threw it to him. He was also an honest man. Could he push his mother away? So he kept her at home to be raised. Fortunately, his wife was also filial and had no complaints about this.

"Okay, okay..." Cao Dapeng's family listened to his wife, and seeing his wife laughing, "Whatever the wife says is what it is."

Several people couldn't help laughing when they saw the couple.

Chen Hong couldn't help but blush, stretched out her hand to scratch her ears, looked up at everyone with a hearty smile on her face, and said, "My husband is a dull man, don't mind it, just tell him if there is anything to do, he can do any hard labor or heavy work."

Then they talked about some details. Working together involved the issue of how to share the labor income, so they made it clear now to avoid conflicts over the distribution issue later.

Cao Xiangnan proposed two plans. One is to calculate the profit sharing. If there is profit, it will be divided according to the proportion of profit sharing. If there is loss, everyone will bear it. The second is a basic salary plus commission method. No matter whether there is profit or not, the bottom line is there. In fact, the first is equivalent to everyone working together to do business, and the second is similar to an employment relationship.

"Brother Cao Gang, what do you think?" Cao Xiangnan knew that Cao Gang was the one who made decisions in Sun Bailian's family. He looked around at the people present and asked, "Or you can put forward better ways and other ideas."

"Well, I have no problem." Cao Gang, who had been silent all the time, said.

Sun Bailian listened to her husband. Since her husband agreed, he naturally had no objection.

"Since we are all doing business together, the profits and losses should be counted as a share of the profits. How can we give us money when we lose money?" Chen Hong shook her head and disagreed. He said, "Bai Lian, your family and Cao Silang's family have contributed money. My family also has some money. I will give it to you later. It will be counted as a share of my family's Dapeng."

Cao Xiangnan roughly understood what Chen Hong meant, and he nodded.

"I don't have much money on hand, and my family probably doesn't have much spare money either. Silang, just pay me the wages." Sun Ji was silent for a while before speaking.

"Then let's put it this way. Brother Sun Ji, you are the same as Brother Da Peng. As for the money you have collected, you can make up for it when you get your share of the money later." Cao Xiangnan actually had his eyes on Sun Ji. He needed someone like him to grow up and serve as his right-hand man. The little benefit at the moment was nothing.

"Okay." Sun Ji was also straightforward and did not refuse.

He glanced at Sun Bailian and understood something in his heart, so he was also grateful to Sun Bailian and Cao Jia Silang in his heart.

It was decided, and their team added two more people, and the team became stronger again.

They talked about setting up a stall tomorrow. Starting tomorrow, Sun Ji and Cao Dapeng will come to Cao Xiangnan's place to make rice noodles together and set up a stall in the town. Speaking of sending radishes, Cao Xiangnan asked, "Is there anyone in the village who grows a lot of vegetables, preferably radishes, Chinese cabbage, and eggs? Instead of buying them in the town in the future, it is better to buy them in the village."

The eggs are potatoes, which are called local eggs here.

Radishes and potatoes are the main ingredients for stewing meat, and they will be used more in the future. Green vegetables will also be used in rice noodles.

"Oh, I have this at home. I have a field full of radishes at home, and now they are all juicy." Chen Hong said as soon as she heard it, "There are also a lot of vegetables planted in the field. In the past, my mother would sell them for money. If you want vegetables, come to my field to pick them. If there are not enough, I will find you some. I know several people who grow and sell vegetables. They are all nice people."

"Yes, I forgot that you have a field of vegetables." Sun Bailian also smiled and said.

"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Chen Hong, to buy vegetables from now on. As for the price, I'll charge you according to the price you usually sell." It's better to give a bargain to your own people than to others, Cao Xiangnan said.

"Where do we need to collect money? In the future, our Dapeng..." Chen Hong said.

"No, the money has to be paid. We have to pay back every transaction." Cao Xiangnan thought about his words.

They didn't buy in the village because they were afraid of attracting attention, so most of these things were bought in the town and brought back. Cao Xiangnan added, "In the future, it's better to find someone with a tight mouth to buy the vegetables, so as not to make some people in the village jealous."

"Okay, okay, I know." Chen Hong nodded. He is smart and will not be stupid enough to give benefits to those who have nothing to do with him. Even

if the vegetables in the field are picked and sold, they may not be sold out every day. The ones that cannot be sold are brought back and cannot be eaten. They will be cut and fed to chickens the next day. It would be good if 70% of the vegetables grown in a field could be sold. Now all the vegetables in the field are sold.

When the sun went down, they sent away the people who came and closed the door to the yard.

Cao Xiangnan tore off the dried papers one by one. What disappointed him was that these papers were okay for writing, but too hard to use for wiping buttocks. It seemed that he had to continue working hard, but at least he made paper, didn't he?

"Husband, is this paper?" Qi Wanfeng asked, looking at the thing in her husband's hand.

"Yes, it's paper." The color was a little yellowish, not particularly good, but it was still usable. Cao Xiangnan said, "Sew these together with needle and thread, and use them to record our daily income in the future."

Paper was still very expensive in this era, and the papermaking technology was not very mature, but he had no idea of ​​changing the history of this era. The only thing he wanted was toilet paper for going to the bathroom.

The red sun in the west sank into the mountains, and the sky gradually dimmed. When the last bit of light disappeared, it was dark. They soaked the rice for tomorrow morning. Thinking of the good business on the first day, they discussed in the evening to grind ten more kilograms of rice tomorrow.

After returning to the room and getting on the bed, Cao Xiangnan sighed comfortably.

When Qi Wanfeng came in, he heard his husband telling a story to the child, but he had never heard of the story before. Cao Xiangnan was telling his little An An about the daughter of the sea, but he changed it to the little brother of the sea, and the story began like this.

"Dad, are there really beautiful mermaids in the sea?" An An bit his little finger. He also wanted to go to the sea to see mermaids.

"Yes, there are a group of mermaids living in the sea." Cao Xiangnan lied to his child in a serious manner.

Qi Wanfeng couldn't help but laugh. As he listened to her husband coaxing their child, he blew out the oil lamp and went to bed. As he listened to her husband telling stories to the child, he moved the child inside and covered the child with a quilt when the child fell asleep.

"Husband, we have to go back to see Dr. Luo tomorrow," Qi Wanfeng said.

"Okay." Cao Xiangnan said, "Let's send some food to Dr. Luo when we go tomorrow."

"Yes." Qi Wanfeng responded.

The voices in the house soon became beautiful, and everything became quiet.

The next day, they had just gotten up and were still in the house when the door outside the yard was knocked. Cao Dapeng came in with a lantern outside the door. He dared to knock on the door only after seeing the lights on inside. He was woken up early by his wife and rushed in.

Last night, Chen Hong quietly told his mother about this matter. His mother also agreed. His mother went back to the room and took out a bag. The bag contained all the money he had saved for most of his life. She wanted to give it to him, but Chen Hong didn't take it.

Chen Hong and her grandmother went to the field to pick a basket of carrots and a lot of vegetables and put them in a backpack for her husband to take over the next morning. Chen Hong was so happy that she couldn't sleep all night. She heard her husband snoring like a pig, and she was afraid that he would fall asleep and not get up the next day. When she heard the first rooster crow, she woke her husband up and rushed him out. Finally, she could sleep peacefully.

"Brother Dapeng, why are you here so early?" Qi Wanfeng went to open the door, and when he saw the person standing outside, he quickly welcomed him in.

"Ah Hong asked me to come earlier." Cao Dapeng was not a liar. It was indeed his wife who asked him to come earlier. He came in with a basket of carrots and vegetables on his back, took out the money bag his wife had given him from his pocket, handed it to Qi Wanfeng, and said, "This is what Ah Hong gave me."

"Well, I'll give it to my husband." Qi Wanfeng took it, and he knew what was in it.

"Okay." Cao Dapeng rubbed his hands and listened to his wife.

There was no scale in their house, so Cao Xiangnan asked Qi Wanfeng to estimate it. After giving a rough number, he gave the money for the vegetables to Cao Dapeng, "Take it, take it back to Chen Hong, it's not for you." Seeing that Cao Dapeng was refusing, he stuffed the money into his hand, and Cao Dapeng had to take it.

"Wanfeng, let's go to the town to buy a scale today."

"Okay."

Not long after, Sun Ji came over, followed by Sun Bailian and Cao Gang, and everyone arrived one by one.

It was not even dawn yet, but they were busy in the yard. The rice noodles steamed in the small kitchen were cut into strips and put into the pot. The soup was stewed on the stove, and the pig offal in the pot was stewed very fragrantly, emitting an alluring aroma.

Sun Ji and Cao Dapeng came for the first day. Sun Ji was smart and understood everything after seeing it once. Cao Dapeng did whatever he was told to do and was a hard-working person. With the addition of two more people, the rice noodles made today are more than the day before, and the speed of making them is not slower than yesterday.

"Brother Gang..." Cao Xiangnan whispered to Cao Gang, and Cao Gang nodded.

He turned around and told Qi Wanfeng, and Qi Wanfeng went into the house and took out a purse for him.

Today it was Sun Bailian's turn to stay at home to look after the children, and they all went to the town to set up stalls. After

going out, the ox cart slowly set off. Because there were more people today, Cao Xiangnan, who was not convenient to walk, continued to sit in the cart, and the others took turns to get off and walk.